Quotes About Chance

Chance happens to all ... but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.

If the origin of life had really been a random event , then it had really been a miracle.

Pero siempre hay tiempo de cambiar. Siempre hay tiempo. Hasta que ya no hay.

Hay casualidades que es preciso forzar

las memorias se convierten en pensamientos y se manifiestan. Por eso es muy importante saber que en realidad las personas aparecen en nuestra vida para darnos otra oportunidad.

He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things. —GEORGE SAVILE, MARQUIS OF HALIFAX

Tis Fate that flings the dice, And as she flings Of kings makes peasants, And of peasants kings.

Two if's scarce make one possibility.

I mean, they are just as susceptible to pressure and in many ways more susceptible to pressure because they are desperately anxious, this is their tremendous chance to break through the rather narrow lives they may lead.

There is no plan. All is hazard. And the only thing that will preserve us is ourselves.

The world began in hazard and will end in it.

Hazard has conditioned us to live in hazard. All our pleasures are dependant upon it. Even though I arrange for a pleasure; and look forward to it, my eventual enjoyment of it is still a matter of hazard. Wherever time passes, there is hazard. You may die before you turn the next page.

The rebel with no specific gift for rebellion is destined to become the drone; and even this metaphor is inexact, since the drone has at least a small chance of fecundating the queen, whereas the human rebel-drone is deprived even of that small chance and may finally see himself as totally sterile, lacking not only the brilliant life-success of the queens but even the humble satisfactions of the workers in the human hive. Such

With nothing to lose, David decided to roll the dice and

Yet by some stroke of almost providential good fortune, he became wanted.

Rarely is success an accident, but when it is, rarely does it last.

Owen Meany believed that "coincidence" was a stupid, shallow refuge sought by stupid, shallow people who were unable to accept the fact that their lives were shaped by a terrifying and awesome design – more powerful and unstoppable than the Yankee Flyer. (a train)

Here in St. Cloud's," Dr. Larch wrote, " I have been given the choice of playing God or leaving practically everything up to chance. It is my experience that practically everything is left up to chance much of the time; men who believe in good and evil, and who believe that good should win, should watch for those moments when it is possible to play God – we should seize those moments. There won't be may

He was too young to know that, in any novel with a reasonable amount of forethought, there were no coincidences.

You take every opportunity given you in this world, even if you have too many opportunities. One day the opportunities stop, you know?

It was a deus-ex-machina world!

Ogni volta che lanci una lumaca dalla darsena, Ray disse a Homer Wells per canzonarlo, costringi qualcuno a ricominciare la vita daccapo. Magari gli faccio un favore, disse Homer Wells, l'orfano.

Crass Casualty obstructs the sun and rain,/And dicing Time for gladness casts a moan.... /These purblind Doomsters had as readily strown/Blisses about my pilgrimage as pain.' I know you know what that means: you believe in God but I believe in 'Crass Casualty'—in chance, in luck. That's what I mean. You see? What good does it do to make whatever decision you're talking about? What good does courage do—when what happens next is up for grabs?

We are not your Sith. We are something new, a chance to do something right. A new tribe. ?Seelah Korsin